#espionage act

[odinsblog]

Dang. Idk if anyone has ever laid out Donald Trump’s entanglement with Russia sO clearly.

If you’ve had enough of watching the Trump clowns defending Trump & white supremacy, the Sutori link is definitely worth reading. It is a very enlightening, detailed and comprehensive timeline that puts Trump’s very very long history with Russian mobsters into sharp perspective.

👉🏿 https://www.sutori.com/story/timeline-you-might-be-interested-in--pTTyLH39r7FsRtF51JZi4BVt

👉🏿 https://forensicnews.net/trump-deutsche-bank-loans-underwritten-by-russian-state-owned-bank-whistleblower-told-fbi/

[lenbryant]

Judges Schmudges, who needs any of that highly overrated “experience” when you have friends in high places to protect?

[nodynasty4us]

Unlike the complicated issues involved in the attempted coup and the insurrection, where Trump did his very best to keep his fingerprints off of the actual manipulation of the electoral slates and all the rest, here, not only his fingerprints, but his distinctive handwriting is on the top-secret documents.

Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, interviewed on CNN

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

After he left the White House, former President Donald Trump allegedly shared sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with an Australian billionaire who is a member of his Mar-a-Lago club, according to a pair of reports published on Thursday.

Trump shared the information with Anthony Pratt during an April 2021 conversation at the Palm Beach, Fla., golf club, according to ABC News, which first reported the development, citing sources familiar with the matter. The New York Times also confirmed the former president shared the information with Pratt, citing two people familiar with the matter.

The revelation was reported to special counsel Jack Smith's office, which charged Trump this year with mishandling classified documents, and prosecutors and FBI agents have twice interviewed Pratt this year about the discussion, ABC News reported.

Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign spokesman, Steven Cheung, said in response to questions about the report, “These illegal leaks are coming from sources which totally lack proper context and relevant information. The Department of Justice should investigate the criminal leaking, instead of perpetrating their baseless witch-hunts while knowing that President Trump did nothing wrong, has always insisted on truth and transparency, and acted in a proper manner, according to the law.”

NBC News has also reached out to Pratt’s company for comment.

Pratt recounted that he told Trump during their conversation that Australia should buy submarines from the U.S., and an excited Trump "leaning" toward Pratt as if to be discreet, told him two pieces of information about American submarines, ABC reported, citing the anonymous sources. Trump shared the number of warheads that U.S. submarines typically carry and how close they can get to Russian submarines without being detected, according to both ABC News and The New York Times.

Trump didn't show any government documents to him during the meeting or any other time at Mar-a-Lago, sources told ABC News.

Pratt, executive global chairman of cardboard company Pratt Industries, then shared Trump's remarks with at least 45 other people through emails and conversations, reported ABC News, including journalists, Australian officials, three former Australian prime ministers and employees at his company.

According to the Times, Pratt is among more than 80 people whom prosecutors from Smith's office have identified as potential witnesses who could testify at Trump's trial that's slated to begin in May in Fort Pierce, Fla.

The special counsel's office declined to comment on the reports.

Just so we're all clear:

You can be jailed for taking photos inside a submarine but this motherfucker tells some rando billionaire about it's armament and capabilities and gets to lounge at his golf resort...

A tale of two Justice systems, indeed.

[joe-england]

Trump's Bombshell Federal Document Indictment

No, really.  It’s that bad.

[3amcynic]

Trump is under arrest (again)! This time on Federal Espionage charges! Let the party commence!

[fuckyeah-nerdery]

Trump got indicted on 38 counts, and 31 of them are just violations of the Espionage Act.

One of the punishments for violating the Espionage Act (if convicted) is that you can't hold public office. 😌

[karadin]

Trump Traitor Documents Timeline

MAY 2021 - National Archive asks Trump where documents supposed to be transferred to them are.

FALL 2021 - National Archive contacts Trump again. Trump appointees at the NA try to get Trump to return the items and Trump replies they are ‘mine’ - all documents belong to the government, ie the people, no one can keep them.

JANUARY 2022 - 15 boxes of records are returned, 700 pages of classified documents included -  after Trump personally goes through the boxes - Top Secret and Secure Compartmentalized documents, the highest security level we have in the US, that are NEVER supposed to leave secure rooms.

FEB 2022 National Archive contracts the Department of Justice over still missing documents, after Trump lawyers signed affidavits that they had returned everything.

APRIL 2022 - National Archive informs Trump of FBI involvement

MAY 2022 - National Archive reminds Trump FBI will be come for documents as early as that week

LATE MAY 2022 - Trump receives subpoena for documents

JUNE 2022 - DOJ officials arrive in plain clothes to take more documents, inform Trump that room where boxes are located must be secure - Trump puts a padlock on the door. DOJ interviews Trump staff. DOJ reviews CCTV footage which reveals that persons are taking boxes into the storage room, and taking other boxes out, changing the containers the documents were in.

AUGUST 2022 - FBI arrives and US Secret Service allow them access to areas including Trump’s bedroom closet where more documents have been hidden. FBI take another 12 boxes of documents. Trump tries to tell public he was unaware and also reports his ‘passports’ are taken, which is a lie. During the search and seizure by court order, Trump and his family are watching via CCTV cameras from New York.

MID AUGUST - after accusing the FBI of illegal acts on social media, a lone maga gunman attacks FBI office and is killed, Trump claims to have ‘declassified’ documents, Trump claims FBI planted documents, Trump threatens DOJ via social media that he can control his followers, Trump’s allies and lawyers admit in court filings that Trump broke the espionage act. Trump files court brief to have documents returned to him and tries to pick his own judge in the case.

LATEST - Trump appointed judge throws case out of her jurisdiction, not playin Trump’s game.

[stellanslashgeode]

I don't often talk about my personal life here but of all the many, many, many, many crimes against Trump this one rankles me the most and I want to explain why.

Over a decade ago I got a job as a civilian employee at a US government library. I don't work there anymore. I worked in the documents section, so I had a security clearance (which I do not have anymore, thankfully). One whole floor of this library was like a bank vault. Bars on the windows, huge metal doors at either end of the floor. Closed stacks so the librarians had to fetch document requests. It was a whole thing.

My first day the sweet southern lady who was senior to me took me aside and explained that there was a team of people working there whose job it was to get me to screw up, present credentials to me that did not match the clearance of the document they requested. And like, it could have been an UNCLASSIFIED document that was controlled because it had proprietary information on it, it didn't have to be controlled or secret. If I were to give them the thing they asked for I would be immediately booked and charged with a crime. And it wasn't a unionized job, so I'd be on my own as far as defense. No one would save me.

And like even if something formally controlled is declassified, there's a whole process that needs to be done. I scanned a lot of cool stuff that I felt had historic value and would be cool for people to research. And I released the stuff that was UNLIMITED to the public. But before I scanned them and released them to the public, I made sure to take a marker and cross out every single former classification mark on the top and bottom of every page and stamp them unclassified, as well as take off the former cover page, which every classified document has. Even the UNCLASIFIED but controlled ones. This was so some troll couldn't take a few pages out of context and claim it was higher classification than it actually was.

Some of the stuff Trump had lying around his bathroom were not only top secret, but they were also compartmentalized nuclear attack plans. Far above anything I ever touched. I cannot stress how I would have been immediately cuffed, bagged, and sent to a black site if the security team found I not only had those things but took them off site.

Sure, Clinton, Biden, and Pence also had stuff they shouldn't have had but they cooperated immediately. At some point it's the cover up, not the crime that gets you.

There is no Trump Presidential Library aside from the current NARA archives but if there was there would be NARA staff watching that shit full time. I cannot stress how blatant a violation of the Espionage Act this was.

I took a loyalty oath too. And I held myself to those principals. This just... infuriates me.

[ivovynckier]

Touching our person seek we no revenge;

But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,

Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws

We do deliver you.

(Henry V, William Shakespeare)

[odinsblog]

Whatever Top Secret documents were at Mar-a-Lago have definitely been compromised already.

Or sold by Trump, to Putin or the highest bidder.

👉🏿 https://www.newsweek.com/spies-may-have-targeted-documents-mishandled-trump-ex-cia-official-1737645

👉🏿 https://www.salon.com/2019/08/03/trumps-white-house-issues-an-ominous-request-for-a-list-of-top-u-s-spies_partner/

👉🏿 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/08/26/classified-documents-linked-human-spies-found-donald-trumps/

👉🏿 https://www.gq.com/story/cia-pulled-russia-spy-because-trump

[lenbryant]

Glad someone else watches Fox “News” so I don’t have to.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell claimed Donald Trump might have avoided being hit with violations of the Espionage Act if it had not been reported that he shared highly sensitive government documents with friends at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

According to Lowell, who has been reporting that the documents may have been hidden from Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran, a new report that Trump left documents laying about and might have shown them to others makes it more likely he'll face more severe charges if that is true.

"The Washington Post reported this week about how prosecutors seem to have evidence that Trump was showing highly sensitive documents to other people," Lowell began. "That's really interesting because that's the kind of aggravating move that a prosecutor looks for when they're trying to prosecute Section 93e of Title 18 which is the Espionage Act."

"There's two parts," he continued. "The first part is willful retention. Willful retention alone is very rarely charged, and I think in the case with the former president, with prosecutors, that was the only thing they might consider not charging."

"But if they have evidence that Trump was showing people and they have the second part of that clause, which is willful transmission and dissemination, that changes the game entirely," he added. "That is the sort of thing that they would charge. That is really concrete evidence that Trump has a lot of problems."

Watch below or at the link:

[tomorrowusa]

That bit about nuclear secrets is no joke. Donald Trump was, and still is, a danger to national security.

‘Devastating': Current and former officials shocked over military secrets found at Mar-a-Lago

The unsealed indictment on former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents has current and former national security officials claiming the case is “devastating” against him and that “damage” may have been done to U.S. national security. Trump is facing 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act through “willful retention” of classified records and six counts related to his alleged effort to obstruct the investigation, according to the 49-page document released Friday. [ ... ] The more than 100 documents seized from Trump’s office in a storage room at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida ranged from Confidential to Top Secret. Images released along with the indictment showed stacks of boxes in open areas, with one showing them lining the walls of a bathroom. [ ... ] The latest legal woe for Trump has his former aides fuming. “The indictment is devastating. Those who defended Trump before the charges were made public, or those who have not yet spoken, should very carefully weigh how history will consider their statements,” John Bolton, Trump’s third national security adviser, told POLITICO. Others are more worried about what it means for the United States to have had such sensitive papers out in the open. “The classified documents described in the indictment are some of the most sensitive information we possess,” said Mick Mulroy, a senior Pentagon official in the Trump administration. “This type of information should never be removed from a secured facility and once discovered should have been immediately returned.” Mulroy suspects that an intelligence and security review may be conducted alongside the criminal proceedings to discover “any potential damage that may have been done to our national security.”

All that far right lickspittles of Trump can do is try to revive their lame chant "but her emails!".

At least Hillary deleted emails instead of sharing them with Russian assets. And she probably didn't keep that famous email server in her bathroom. 😆🚽

[astrabear]

I imagine this will be edited soon, but for now enjoy this excerpt from the Wikipedia article about the Espionage Act of 1917: